As a consequence of the victories we have registered during our first ten years of freedom, we have laid a firm foundation for the new advances we must and will make during the next decade.
- Thabo Mbeki Quote

I don't imagine Heads of Government would ever be able to say I'm not an economist therefore I can't take decisions on matters of the economy; I'm not a soldier I can't take decisions on matters of defence; I'm not an educationist so I can't take decisions about education.
- Thabo Mbeki Quote

I get a sense that we've all been educated into one school of thought. I'm not surprised at all to find among the overwhelming majority of scientists, are people who would hold one particular view because that's all they're exposed to.
- Thabo Mbeki Quote

I say that why don't we bring all points of view. Sit around a table and discuss this evidence, and produce evidence as it may be, and let's see what the outcome is, which is why we are having this International panel which we are all talking about.
- Thabo Mbeki Quote

If we only said safe sex, use a condom, we won't stop the spread of AIDS in this country.
- Thabo Mbeki Quote

It wouldn't sit easily on one's conscience that you had been warned and there could be danger, but nevertheless you went ahead and said let's dispense these drugs.
- Thabo Mbeki Quote

It's very worrying at this time in the world that any point of view should be prohibited, that's banned, there are heretics that should be burned at the stake.
- Thabo Mbeki Quote

Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village.
- Thabo Mbeki Quote

One of the things that became clear, and which was actually rather disturbing, was the fact that there was a view which was being expressed by people whose scientific credentials you can't question.
- Thabo Mbeki Quote

That surely must be a concern to anyone who decides this drug must be given to stop transmissions, again from mother to child, which is extremely costly and must be taken into account.
- Thabo Mbeki Quote

The concern around probable questions, which in a sense have been hidden, will grow around the world and the matter is critical, the reason we are doing all this is so we can respond correctly to what is reported to be a major catastrophe on the African continent.
- Thabo Mbeki Quote

The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living.
- Thabo Mbeki Quote

Together we have travelled a long road to be where we are today. This has been a road of struggle against colonial and apartheid oppression.
- Thabo Mbeki Quote

We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities.
- Thabo Mbeki Quote

We've had a long wrangle with the pharmaceutical industry about parallel imports, and what we were saying is we want to make medicines and drugs as affordable as a possible to what is largely a poor population.
- Thabo Mbeki Quote

Well, because lots of questions had been raised about the toxicity of the drug, which is very serious.
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